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Podcast: Solomon’s Staircase Masonic Lodge
Episode: SS357: March 2023 Trestle Board - Why Freemasonry (Season 7, Episode 2)
Description: Why Freemasonry?The earliest and best known of the English handlers of London Free & Accepted Masonry in the 1720’s, were Dr. Anderson, who wrote the book of Masonic Constitutions, and Dr. Oliver, who wrote extensively on Freemasonry. Briefly, there were other notables at the time of course who simply studied its background and the known initiatory doctrines of antiquity (Ashmole, Desaguliers, et al.), who realized its power in their era as both a movement for the edification of worthy men, and a possible means as a catalyst for advancing, and even hastening, the development of...